Final answer:
The Hamming distance is a measure of the difference between two strings of equal length. To calculate it, compare each bit of one string with the corresponding bit of the other string and count the positions where the bits are different.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Hamming distance is a measure of the difference between two strings of equal length. It is calculated by counting the positions at which the corresponding elements in the two strings are different.
To compute the Hamming distance of the given code, compare each bit of one string with the corresponding bit of the other string. Count the positions where the bits are different. The total count will give you the Hamming distance.
For example, comparing the strings 0011010010111100 and 0000011110001111, the Hamming distance would be 7, as there are 7 positions where the bits are different.
The question is about calculating the Hamming distance, which is the count of differing bits between two binary strings. For multiple strings, Hamming distance is typically computed pairwise. Additional instructions are needed for handling multiple strings in the context of this question.
The student's question involves computing the Hamming distance between multiple binary codes. The Hamming distance between two binary strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding bits are different. It provides a measure of how different two strings are, used in various applications including error detection and correction.
To find the Hamming distance, we compare each corresponding bit position between each pair of strings. However, in the question provided, there are more than two binary strings. Typically, the Hamming distance is computed between two strings at a time. The details or instructions on how to handle multiple strings were not clear from the question.
If we were to compute the pairwise Hamming distance for all combinations, we'd have to consider all possible pairs and then either sum or find the average of these distances based on the context (which is not provided).